As the sixth building designed by the firm for Northeastern's new West Campus, this 140,000 square foot mixed-use building completes the build-out of the 1.2 million square foot Master Plan.

The building reinforces the university’s academic mission and commitment to creating a new mixed-use sector of campus. Creating a vibrant, high-density environment that is active at all hours of the day, the building embodies the spirit of “living & learning.” It includes three significant components: Freshman Honors Housing, a Cultural Center, and an Academic Center.

]]>info@archinnovations.com (A.I.)Mixed UseWed, 27 Apr 2011 12:06:39 +0000 Terry Pawson Architects - VISUAL & the George Bernard Shaw Theatre in Carlow, Irelandhttp://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/mixed-use/visual-and-the-george-bernard-shaw-theatre-in-carlow-ireland/
http://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/mixed-use/visual-and-the-george-bernard-shaw-theatre-in-carlow-ireland/The new €18 million building provides Ireland with a significant new arts space to showcase contemporary visual arts and theatre of national and international importance. It will function as an arts factory for the production of new work through artists in residence programs as well as providing a new home to the Éigse Carlow Arts Festival and Visualise Carlow, which has established a significant reputation in Ireland in the last 30 years.Courtesy of Helene Binet

Unique to Ireland, VISUAL features an expansive gallery space with a ceiling height of 12m to accommodate large-scale sculpture and installation, the scale of which has not been easily accommodated in Ireland to date.
]]>info@archinnovations.com (A.I.)Mixed UseFri, 11 Feb 2011 13:36:46 +0000Steven Holl Architects - Horizontal Skyscraper / Vanke Center in Shenzhen, Chinahttp://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/mixed-use/steven-holl-architects-horizontal-skyscraper-vanke-center-in-shenzhen-china/
http://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/mixed-use/steven-holl-architects-horizontal-skyscraper-vanke-center-in-shenzhen-china/

Hovering over a tropical garden, this ‘horizontal skyscraper’ – as long as the Empire State Building is tall - is a hybrid building including apartments, a hotel, and offices for the headquarters for China Vanke Co. ltd. A conference center, spa and parking are located under the large green, tropical landscape, which is characterized by mounds containing restaurants and a 500-seat auditorium.

The building appears as if it were once floating on a higher sea that has now subsided; leaving the structure propped up high on eight legs. The decision to float one large structure right under the 35-meter height limit, instead of several smaller structures each catering to a specific program, generates the largest possible green space open to the public on the ground level.

Suspended on eight cores, as far as 50 meters apart, the building’s structure is a combination of cable-stay bridge technology merged with a high-strength concrete frame. The first structure of its type, it has tension cables carrying a record load of 3280 tons.

The project converted a crumbling historic icon into a model of urban revitalization and sustainability. Now, Albert Kahn’s 1931 car factory for Henry Ford houses an acre-sized public event venue, restaurant/retail, and tenants including SunPower and Mountain Hardwear.

The 500,000-squre-foot waterfront building was awe-inspiring even as a quake-ravaged, brick, steel and concrete ruin. Hence, the project design objective to reflect our current century led to the integration of modern architectural elements for today’s diverse building program while complementing and enhancing the edifice’s powerful forms.

The restoration and preservation of the Ford Assembly Building on the San Francisco Bay waterfront, saved an historic architectural icon from the wrecking ball, and converted a long-vacant auto plant into a current-day model of urban revitalization and sustainability. The 525,000 square foot building had been designed by Albert Kahn for Henry Ford, and constructed in 1931. Following the facility’s initial car factory function, the Ford Building had many incarnations, including the famous World War II tank factory "manned" by Rosie-the-Riveters.
]]>info@archinnovations.com (A.I.)Mixed UseThu, 13 Jan 2011 13:23:46 +0000Taichung Echo Wind Tower Project in Taiwanhttp://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/mixed-use/taichung-echo-wind-tower-project-in-taiwan/
http://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/mixed-use/taichung-echo-wind-tower-project-in-taiwan/Overseeing the Taichung basin, the Taiwan Tower is the observatory of the central Taiwan ecosystem ranging from the Central Mountain Range to the South China sea.The tower's envelope is composed of 2 million suspended thin metal leaves that tilt up against the wind, which operates 64 internal helicoidal wind turbines generating enough energy to make the building fully sustainable.

The facade shows patterns of air flows as a monumental expression of the natural context and its immediate climatic conditions. Its skin symbolizes the cohesion of the surrounding habitat while the evolving winds provide transformations of its form.

The multifunctional building ASTRA is located in a strategic site: where the two main axis of this Adriatic city meet: Corso Nazario Sauro (east-west) , Via Orsini-Trieste (north-south). This is also the place where the main square is located: Piazza Martiri Fosse Ardeatine. The area is situated on the east side of the square: the project redefines all this border of the square with a strategy that emphasizes both the volumes and the voids.
]]>mail@cadtopia.ca (A. I.)Mixed UseFri, 28 May 2010 13:29:55 +0000ZGF Architects - Twelve West in Portland, ORhttp://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/mixed-use/zgf-architects-twelve-west-in-portland-or/
http://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/mixed-use/zgf-architects-twelve-west-in-portland-or/Rising 23 stories above Portland, Oregon’s evolving West End neighborhood, Twelve|West is a mixed-use building designed to meet two LEED Platinum Certifications and serve as a laboratory for cutting-edge, sustainable design strategies. It features street level retail space, four floors of office space for ZGF Architects LLP, 17 floors of apartments and five levels of below-grade parking.

As a 2010 Top Ten Award Winner of the AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects, the building has an eco-roof, rooftop garden and terrace space, complete fitness studio and a theatre. Four wind turbines sit prominently atop the building representing the first U.S. installation of a wind turbine array on an urban, high-rise. Twelve|West serves as not only an anchor in a rapidly transforming urban neighborhood, but also as a demonstration project to inform future sustainable building design.

This is the third BOLLES+WILSON building for the German-wide furniture chain RS+Yellow, an extension of the home-base storage and distribution centre by 7,000 m2. The new rectangular building volume stands adjacent to the original 1992 corrugated aluminium warehouse.
]]>camille@archinnovations.com (Camille Chami)Mixed UseFri, 16 Apr 2010 13:11:55 +0000BOB361 - P.NT2 Renovation Towards A Habitat-Work Environment in Brusselhttp://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/mixed-use/bob361-building-transformation/
http://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/mixed-use/bob361-building-transformation/BOB361 transformed a former goldsmithery into a pleasant living/working environment. Partial demolition helped in providing a larger permeability and plenty of light and ventilation that is needed by the internal spaces to become suitable for in their new role. The linear organization distributes the spaces along a gradual progression that takes the visitor from the public areas to semipublic courtyards, and finally the more private lofts and gardens.
]]>mail@cadtopia.ca (A. I.)Mixed UseTue, 13 Apr 2010 11:25:54 +0000KlingStubbins - Abu Dhabi Ecological Parkhttp://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/mixed-use/klingstubbins-abu-dhabi-ecological-park/
http://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/mixed-use/klingstubbins-abu-dhabi-ecological-park/The Abu Dhabi Eco Park master plan represents the framework for a new urban community, and a roadmap for how this land will be transformed into a model of sustainable living. The sustainability plan, closely modeled on the One Planet Living guiding principles, lays out the vision, strategies, and actions necessary to create an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable development for the enjoyment of residents, visitors, and neighboring communities.
]]>mail@cadtopia.ca (A. I.)Mixed UseWed, 07 Apr 2010 13:03:29 +0000